Attachment for driving lines or reins



(No Model.)

0. J. KING. I ATTACHMENT FOR DRIVING LINES 0R RBINS. No. 391,323.Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

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NITED STAT-ES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. KING, OF WOODSTOWN, NEW JERSEY.

ATTACHMENT FOR DRIVING LINES OR REINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,323, dated October16, 1888,

Application filed March 17, 1888. Serial No. 267,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. KING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Woodstown, in the county of Salem and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments forDriving Lines or Reins, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improvement in driving linesor reins which will do away with the buckle usually employed to connectthe double reins and the single rein in a double set of harness, andwhich will be secure, inexpensive, not liable to catch in a net on thehorses or in the other parts of the harness, and which will enable aconsiderable saving of leather and labor in making the reins.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of part of the doublereins and part of the single rein embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 isa perspective view of the clip for connecting the reins.

My device for connecting the reins consists (No model.)

The double line D is secured to the clip as follows: This line is madeof one piece, and one end is passed between the top and bottom 6 e,around the bar 0, and then between the top and bottom 0 6 again, asshown in Fig. 1. This line is prevented from slipping by the point orpoints 01 passing through holes f punched in the line, as shown in Fig.1.

This device forms an exceedingly secure means for connecting the twolines, and no projections are formed which can be caught in the harness.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination,with the lines D and B, of the clipA, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A clip for connecting the double and single reins of a set ofharness, having sides a a, an end, I), a bar, 0, furnished with one ormore points, d, and a top and bottom, 6 e, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES J. KING.

Witnesses:

ENOOH S. Foes, CHARLES H. RICHMAN.

